Dear Seraphina,

I know you are hoping for an answer on how your team will do in the finals this year. But if I told you, would it really make any difference? This is your team, this is your year to train, to practice, to become all that you’re meant to be. Winning or losing this year won’t define you in the end, of course.

Just don’t believe all of that hoopla over quantum gambling being real, for Pete’s sake! It’s obviously not!!! Focus on your game, not on your stats!!!

You, in the future, in debt

*****

PO Box 159 at the Brooksdale Post Office is a bit unusual. Every week, it receives letters from many different people from many different times in the future. Many times, the letters are well-wishes and advice from the loved ones of people of our time. Other times, there are dire warnings.

No one seems to know how or why these letters started coming to PO Box 159. They simply appear. The future these letters describe seems to be in constant flux; one day the year 2098 sounds like a dystopian hellscape, the next day a letter will appear describing a garden of Eden.

Emma Reilly, the owner of PO Box 159, shares the letters she receives through this blog (mostly) every Tuesday.